Tate Modern Industrial Womb

Mire Lee's Hyundai Commission reimagines Tate Modern as an industrial womb. Reflecting on the building's former life as a power station, Open Wound presents the Turbine Hall as a living factory, finding human dreams and desires in sprawling mechanical systems. Mire Lee: 'Open Wound' The Turbine Hall has been filled with the vast, gory corpse of our industrial past, and it's brilliant.

Drawing inspiration from Tate Modern's history as a power station, Mire Lee has transformed the Turbine Hall with striking hanging sculptures and epic mechanical installations. Tate Modern today unveils a new large-scale sculptural installation by artist Mire Lee, who reimagines the Turbine Hall as the inside of a body, transforming it into an eerie and fantastical factory. Mire Lee creates an 'industrial womb' in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall Tate Drawing inspiration from Tate Modern's history as a power station, Mire Lee has transformed the Turbine Hall with striking hanging sculptures and epic mechanical installations.

The ninth annual Hyundai Commission sees Korean artist Mire Lee transform the turbine hall in London's Tate Modern into the innards of a seemingly living factory. Lee-who lives and works between Seoul and Amsterdam -uses industrial materials such as metal, concrete and silicone to create installation art that teeters between. Drawing inspiration from Tate Modern's history as a power station, Mire Lee has transformed the Turbine Hall with striking hanging sculptures and epic mechanical installations.

Hear from curators Alvin Li and Bilal Akkouche, along with Production Manager Nancy Cooper, on how the ghosts of industrial history influenced the artist and how the artwork has continued []. The current installation in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern is Mire Lee's Open Wound (on until 16 March 2025). The Turbine Hall is seen as an industrial womb in this installation where various "skins" - fabric sculptures suspended on chains - emerge from a machine coated with a liquid that drips from the machine's tentacles.

Then they are moved to racks to harden before being added to the rest. The artist reimagines Tate Modern as an "industrial womb". Reflecting on the building's former life as a power station, Hyundai Commission: Mire Lee: Open Wound presents the Turbine Hall as a living factory, finding human dreams and desires in sprawling mechanical systems.

Over six months, Hyundai Commission: Mire Lee: Open Wound has transformed Tate Modern's Turbine Hall into what she describes as an 'industrial womb,' brought to life by both kinetic machines and human effort. Blending moments from industrial history with surrealist themes, Lee uncovers human dreams and desires within vast technological systems.